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Title: Darn, I wish they would label these things !
Post by: 230RN on December 13, 2017, 08:31:08 PM
So I bought a bunch of small magnifying glasses for gifties and to have around the house and guess what?  I'm right-handed and fully half of them are left-handed magnifying glasses.

Dayam !

Terry
Title: Re: Darn, I wish they would label these things !
Post by: MillCreek on December 13, 2017, 10:26:11 PM
Flip it over.
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Post by: zxcvbob on December 13, 2017, 10:30:36 PM
I bought one just like it a few months ago (from Harbor Freight, I think) and I had to search thru a whole pile of them to find a left-handed one.
Title: Re: Darn, I wish they would label these things !
Post by: Ben on December 13, 2017, 10:35:49 PM
Cut that cheap handle off. Go to the scrap yard and find yourself some 1/4" steel plate. Preferably a large piece. Get a plasma cutter. Cut a handle to the size you want. Get a welder. Weld the new handle in place on the right side. Spray with a coat of Rustoleum. Use the leftovers from the steel plate to weld up some jack stands.

 =D
Title: Re: Darn, I wish they would label these things !
Post by: grampster on December 13, 2017, 11:06:15 PM
What Ben said. :old:
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Post by: Hawkmoon on December 13, 2017, 11:15:06 PM
So I bought a bunch of small magnifying glasses for gifties and to have around the house and guess what?  I'm right-handed and fully half of them are left-handed magnifying glasses.

Dayam !

Terry

That's a feature, not a bug. The left-handed ones are so you can hold one in the left hand for the left eye whilst holding another in the right hand, for the right eye.
Title: Re: Darn, I wish they would label these things !
Post by: 230RN on December 13, 2017, 11:28:53 PM
Flip it over.

???

Don't matter nohow.  They're still left-handed.
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Post by: TommyGunn on December 13, 2017, 11:33:06 PM
This website has caught a bad case of the stoopidz. [tinfoil]
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Post by: KD5NRH on December 14, 2017, 02:25:55 AM
Go to the other side of it; those are for looking at stuff on the other side of the house right handed.
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Post by: RocketMan on December 14, 2017, 06:15:37 AM
Get rid of the magnifying glasses and just squint harder.
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Post by: Firethorn on December 14, 2017, 06:27:39 AM
I'd imagine that they're left handed so you can hold it while you manipulate whatever it is magnifying with your right.

I'd try popping the lense out and installing it in backwards.
Title: Re: Darn, I wish they would label these things !
Post by: French G. on December 14, 2017, 07:08:22 AM
Dude at work asks to borrow a crescent wrench. Other dude says I got one, but it's metric. Dude walks away. Of course the same one wandered around for an hour looking for the basement key.  We are a plant built on a slab. Reportedly the dude needed the key to go get the stainless magnet, but not sure someone can be that dumb and still breathe.
Title: Re: Darn, I wish they would label these things !
Post by: 230RN on December 14, 2017, 11:30:33 AM
I'd imagine that they're left handed so you can hold it while you manipulate whatever it is magnifying with your right.

I'd try popping the lense out and installing it in backwards.

No joy.  All the lettering I'm trying to read comes out backwards.
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Post by: TechMan on December 14, 2017, 12:41:35 PM
Dude at work asks to borrow a crescent wrench. Other dude says I got one, but it's metric. Dude walks away. Of course the same one wandered around for an hour looking for the basement key.  We are a plant built on a slab. Reportedly the dude needed the key to go get the stainless magnet, but not sure someone can be that dumb and still breathe.

The actual question is how are they making it in private business, they should be moved in to a .gov job quickly, preferably the IRS.
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Post by: Brad Johnson on December 14, 2017, 01:06:53 PM
No joy.  All the lettering I'm trying to read comes out backwards.

Turn the reading material around so it reverses the reverse.

Brad
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Post by: Firethorn on December 14, 2017, 01:23:49 PM
No joy.  All the lettering I'm trying to read comes out backwards.

You can't read backwards print? 
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Post by: TechMan on December 14, 2017, 01:35:29 PM
No joy.  All the lettering I'm trying to read comes out backwards.

Get a mirror.
Title: Re: Darn, I wish they would label these things !
Post by: 230RN on December 14, 2017, 02:03:18 PM
Turn the reading material around so it reverses the reverse.

Brad

Well, rats.  The other side was blank.
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Post by: HankB on December 14, 2017, 05:17:57 PM
This website has caught a bad case of the stoopidz. [tinfoil]
You mean we have writers for The Walking Dead?

Or maybe even  . . . FEAR the Walking Dead?

 :O
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Post by: grampster on December 14, 2017, 06:57:17 PM
Hold it in your other hand. :old: :laugh:
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Post by: TommyGunn on December 14, 2017, 07:31:38 PM
You mean we have writers for The Walking Dead?

Or maybe even  . . . FEAR the Walking Dead?

 :O
Well, I wouldn't be so quick to boast about it,  but.....yeah!   [popcorn] [tinfoil] :rofl:
Title: Re: Darn, I wish they would label these things !
Post by: 230RN on December 15, 2017, 02:42:06 PM
Hold it in your other hand. :old: :laugh:

Nah.  Awkward.  That just puts the lens part over your right wrist and you still have to compensate for the weird angle of the left-handed handle.

Nuts.  I've given up.  I'm going to bring all the left-handed ones back to Harbor Freight for a refund or at least a store credit.

Terry, 230RN
Title: Re: Darn, I wish they would label these things !
Post by: Fly320s on December 15, 2017, 03:04:19 PM
Have you tried duct tape?
Title: Re: Darn, I wish they would label these things !
Post by: 230RN on December 15, 2017, 03:11:52 PM
Have you tried duct tape?

No, wise guy.  Nor "turning it off and turning it back on again." Nor, the legendary Detcord.

I don't get no respect around here.  Some of you guys are totally unsympathetic to my problem.

Well, off to Harbor Freight I go.

Terry